Border Patrol Will Deploy Elite Tactical Agents to Sanctuary Cities
Source: New York Times
Border Patrol Will Deploy Elite Tactical Agents to Sanctuary Cities
By Caitlin Dickerson and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Feb. 14, 2020
Updated 3:02 p.m. ET
The Trump administration is deploying law enforcement tactical units from the southern border as part of a supercharged arrest operation in sanctuary cities across the country, an escalation in the presidents battle against localities that refuse to participate in immigration enforcement.
The specially trained officers are being sent to cities including Chicago and New York to boost the enforcement power of local ICE officers, according to two officials who are familiar with the secret operation. Additional agents are expected to be sent to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, Boston, New Orleans, Detroit and Newark, N.J.
The move reflects President Trumps persistence in cracking down on sanctuary cities, localities that have refused to cooperate in handing over immigrants targeted for deportation to federal authorities. It comes soon after the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security announced a series of measures that will affect both American citizens and immigrants living in those places.
Lawrence Payne, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, confirmed the agency was deploying 100 officers to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which conducts arrests in the interior of the country, in order to enhance the integrity of the immigration system, protect public safety, and strengthen our national security.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/Border-Patrol-ICE-Sanctuary-Cities.html
Hat tip, Joe.My.God:
Elite Border Patrol Tactical Units To Hit Sanctuary Cities
February 14, 2020
https://www.joemygod.com/2020/02/elite-border-patrol-tactical-units-to-hit-sanctuary-cities/
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,475 posts)junior g-men go running into some building heavily armed and the local constabulary gets a call about a gang war, or terrorist attack, and shows up with their testosterone-intoxicated "tactical" squad?
Blues Heron
(5,944 posts)2naSalit
(86,824 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)TeamPooka
(24,262 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)captain queeg
(10,269 posts)msongs
(67,459 posts)captain queeg
(10,269 posts)The kind who like to sit around fondling their expensive guns.
mzmolly
(51,007 posts)Insane times.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,538 posts)Sucks he managed to blunder his fat ass into the oval office and found he still didn't have enough power.
Normanart
(279 posts)Breaking news...the early morning raid by ICE tactical troops killed an entire family of US citizens thought to be protecting undocumented workers. In fact, the family thought they were being attacked by gang members, and had grabbed kitchen utensils and broomsticks to defend themselves. No undocumented workers were found at the scene. ICE spokesperson Ima Lyer said They should not have armed themselves.
Not a true story...yet.
Wuddles440
(1,128 posts)more of these types of paramilitary units being deployed in the near future. Il Douche and his henchmen continue to test and probe to see how the general public reacts to their increasingly aggressive tactics. Apathy and indifference only emboldens them. And don't think this just will be limited to operations focused on immigration. They're laying the foundation for expanding such enforcement measures to other segments of our society that appear to threaten their authoritarian policies.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)How very Trumpian of them...
bucolic_frolic
(43,353 posts)political military police
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Die Anschluß... if we allow it.
ashredux
(2,609 posts)Watch....next I undocumented folks will have to wear armbands
PupCamo
(288 posts)do you think trump is going to let anyone just walk around when he can put them in cages
aggiesal
(8,935 posts)otherwise that have no jurisdiction.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/who-lives-in-border-patrols-100-mile-zone-probably-you-mapped/558275/
DENVERPOPS
(8,847 posts)do you think the Republicans give a rats ass about any rule of law, including the constitution.
Warpy
(111,367 posts)I live in a sanctuary city, which means our local cops, already stretched to the limit, aren't expected to do La Migra's work for it. It has also meant ICE agents have been evicted from courtrooms as a disruption and disincentive for any Hispanic accused of a crime or presented as a witness to show up at a trial, whether or not they're citizens, as all Hispanics were getting harassed.
The state does notify ICE if an undocumented alien is convicted of a crime. However, people just doing their jobs and paying their taxes are not being required to show identification by every cop on the street. It is simply unworkable.
I notice the infection of orange slime mold is only going after Hispanic, Arabs, and Africans, while leaving Europeans and Canadians who have overstayed alone. There are plenty of the latter here as retirees.
CanonRay
(14,119 posts)Let them fend for themselves.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)He'd lose a lot of cheap labor, but think of the room rates he could charge!
woundedkarma
(498 posts)They need to put the police or whoever they can in front of these guys and say NO.
Anything less is a capitulation to our equivalent of hitler.
Sorry I didn't go far enough with this so.. EDIT:
This has been coming for a while. Everyone here on DU has seen it. We point it out. And then we kind of laugh it off.
This is trump building a personal army.
It isn't humorously like the SS or whatever.. THIS IS IT.
Their ranks will swell with all the racists in the country. All the trumpwhores will join if they can. Until the point when they're too big to stop.
Things are picking up. Will we still have a country on the 4th?
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Part 2?
Joinfortmill
(14,478 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,479 posts)Yeehah
(4,597 posts)Immigrants today, liberals tomorrow.
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)of poli sci at Dartmouth that summed up my reaction to this story:
Link to tweet
Text for the twitter-deprived:
Sending in SWAT-style teams for routine immigration enforcement. Hard not to conclude this is designed to intimidate communities and punish cities that are resisting Trump policies.
Joinfortmill
(14,478 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Nitram
(22,900 posts)federal tactical units.